Headliners Junior Dos Santos ($220,000) and Cain Velasquez ($100,000) were the top earners at this past weekend’s UFC on FOX event.

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today requested and obtained the list of official disclosed paydays from the California State Athletic Commission.

The total disclosed payroll for the event was an evil-sounding $666,000.

UFC on FOX took place this past Saturday, Nov. 12, at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. The night’s main event aired on FOX (and marked the UFC’s network-television debut), and the full undercard streamed on Facebook and FOXSports.com.

In the headliner, which drew 8.8 million viewers to make it the most-watched MMA fight in U.S. television history, Dos Santos took the belt from Velasquez with a 64-second knockout.

Now, the usual disclaimer: The figures do not include deductions for
items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Additionally, the figures
do not include money paid by sponsors, which can oftentimes be a
substantial portion of a fighter’s income. They also do not include any
other “locker room” or special bonuses the UFC oftentimes pays. They
also do not include portions of the pay-per-view revenue that some
top-level fighters receive.

For example, as previously reported, UFC officials handed out additional $65,000 UFC on FOX bonuses to Dos Santos (“KO of the Night”), Lamas (“Submission of the Night”), and Henderson and Guida (“Fight of the Night”).

In other words, the above figures are simply base salaries reported to
the commission and do not reflect entire compensation packages for the
event.

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